Talking To Yourself Through Tarot: 4 Steps to Understanding Your Power Through The Cards

I have been practicing tarot for about five years, but only really understood its true power in the last two. Those first three years, I was very disconnected from myself, living out painful patterns unconsciously and neglecting my inner voice. Raised in a manner that led me to defer to the higher authority of others, I was unable to see my own opinion as enough. I gave away my power. On the journey back to myself, I have learned a great deal about self-trust, and my tarot practice was essential to this.

I practice tarot with myself almost every day. When I am facing anxious thoughts, I pull cards and journal until clarity replaces worry. When I’m having trouble making a decision, tarot helps me understand that I already know what I’m going to choose, I want permission to know it.

The cards have a strong personality, a sense of humor, a directness, a poetry. They help me see my own story from a distance so that I can see clearly what chapter will be next. I believe the cards function with a power all their own, and that power is in direct relationship to the power we give it. You can’t have one without the other. You are what makes tarot work.

Though the opinions of beloved friends, trusted loved ones and people we look up to are beautiful…